The Consumer Industries team at Reynolds Advisory Partners has experience in a broad range of consumer product manufacturers and retailers. Having worked with industry giants such as Sears as well as specialized companies such as Huffy Corp, a sporting goods company, and Making Memories, a scrapbooking company, our bankers have an expansive network of contacts that is essential for success.
Representative client transactions involving our bankers can be seen below. To learn more about how Reynolds Advisory Partners’ outstanding experience in the Consumer Products can help you meet all your needs, please contact us.
Key Contacts - Rod Essen (Consumer) and Sue Field (Retail)
| Client | Transaction Value ($mm) | Transaction Description |
|---|---|---|
| Acorn Products, Inc | 10 | Acquisition of HB Sherman |
| Acorn Products, Inc | 45 | Initial public offering |
| Broadway Stores (Zell/Chilmark) | 1,700 | Sale to Federated Department Stores |
| Campeau Corporation | 5,000 | Restructuring of Allied and Federated Department Store Holdings |
| Carson Pirie Scott | 825 | Sale to PA Bergner in hostile defense |
| Consolidated Stores | 195 | Equity secondary |
| Consolidated Stores (Frontenac/Madison Dearborn) | n.a. | Defense/strategic advisor |
| Dayton Hudson (now Target) | 250 | Public debt |
| Dayton Hudson (now Target) | n.a. | Defense/strategic advisor |
| Diversified Products Corporation | n.a. | Leveraged buyout |
| DLJ/Sefinco | 200 | Acquisition of Loehmann’s from May Company |
| Herberger’s | 155 | Sale to Proffitts |
| Homelife (Sears) | 100 | Subsidiary carve out sale to Citicorp Venture Capital |
| Huffy Corp | n.a. | Acquisition of Gen X Sports Inc |
| International Game Technology | 115 | Public offering |
| Kmart | 75 | Acquisition of a division of Venture Stores |
| Kmart | 1,000 | Convertible preferred |
| Loehmann’s (DLJ/Sefinco) | 120 | High yield debt |
| MacFrugal’s | 300 | Defense/strategic advisor for David Batchelder proxy fight |
| Macy’s | 4,100 | Chapter 11 sale to Federated Department Stores |
| Making Memories | 85 | Sale to Advent International |
| Marco Manufacturing, Inc. | 35 | Sale to Lennox Industries |
| Mobility Electronics | 15 | PIPE |
| Petco Animal Supplies | 47 | Initial public offering |
| Sears Roebuck & Co. | 415 | Acquisition of Orchard Hardware Supply (Freeman Spogli) |
| Sears Roebuck & Co. | 1,380 | Asset backed securities, MTNs |
| Sears Roebuck & Co. | n.a. | Off-the-mall retail/home services strategic advisor |
| Sears Roebuck & Co. (Home Services) | 75 | Formation of strategic alliance with ADT |
| Snapple | 150 | Sale to Thomas H Lee |
| Snapple (Thomas H Lee) | 80 | Initial public offering |
| Western Auto (Sears) | 400 | Subsidiary carve out sale to Advance Automotive (Freeman Spogli) |
| Woolworth | n.a. | Annual defense/valuation advisor |
| Woolworth (Canada) | 300 | Sale to Wal-Mart |
| Total | 17,172 | |
| Transactions | 33 |